Riley v. United States

WILKIN, District Judge.

This is an action to recover on the National Service Life Insurance Policy issued by the United States to the plaintiff’s former husband, Charles P. Kelley. The case was submitted on the pleadings, the evidence, a stipulation of facts, briefs, and oral argument. The three controlling issues are:(1) Whether the act of the insured in naming his wife the beneficiary in an AAF Personal Affairs Statement was *156such an affirmative ■ act, in conjunction with other, supporting evidence, as to show that the insured unambiguously exercised his statutory right to change the…